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WorksheetsWeek 8: Reconstruction Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
The period of rebuilding of The South after The Civil War was known as
The Renaissance
Reconstruction
The Guilded Age
The Industrial Revolution
Which Amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th
14th
15th
3rd
Which Amendment gave United States citizens of all races the right to vote?
13th
14th
15th
5th
Who would have most likely NOT supported the Freedmen's Bureau?
An abolitionist
a carpetbagger
a former slave owner
a northern business owner
This group opposed Lincoln's plan for reconstruction and felt the south should be punished.
Democrats
Radical Republicans
Libertarians
Socialists
This gave all men regardless of race the right to vote.
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
16th Amendment
Freedmen in the south made their living usually by ....
farming
as craftsmen
as house servants
as politicians
This secret society attempted to keep Freedmen from exercising their rights through threats and violence.
the Freedmen's Bureau
The Anti-Freedmen Group
the Ku Klux Klan
the NAACP
Why did Sharecropping and tenant farming become the dominant form of agriculture after the Civil War?
many former Confederate soldiers were available to work
the government offered farmers incentives to practice sharecropping
there were many former slaves who needed work and plantation owners who needed labor
people flocked to the south after the war for jobs
Who became president after Lincoln's assassination?
U.S. Grant
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Jackson
Robert E. Lee
What was a carpetbagger?
A Northern who moved to the south to take advantage of the instability
A farmer who worked on the land that was owned by someone else
A term to call southerners who helped create the Northern plan of Reconstruction
A member of the Radical Republican political party
Which of the following was NOT a way for Southern governments to keep African Americans from voting?
Grandfather Clauses
Literacy Tests
Poll Tax
Fingerprinting
Who was the first African American senator?
Andrew Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Malcolm X
Hiram Rhodes Revels
How long did Reconstruction last?
13 Years
14 Years
15 Years
12 Years
In the article "Reconstruction: a time of political and social
upheaval in America" the author, Edward L. Ayers is the president of which university?
Stephen F. Austin State Univeristy
The University of Richmond
The University of Southern California
The University of North Texas
